Biological Sciences, School of
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
2007
Virgin Birth in a Hammerhead Shark, Demian D. Chapman, Mahmood S. Shivji, Ed Louis, Julie Sommer, Hugh Fletcher, and Paulo A. Prodöhl
Jhe in Gryllus assimilis: Cloning, sequence-activity associations and phylogeny, E. J. Crone, Anthony J. Zera, A. Anand, J. G. Oakeshott, T. D. Sutherland, R. J. Russell, Lawrence G. Harshman, Federico G. Hoffmann, and C. Claudianos
ROBUST POPULATION MANAGEMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY FOR STRUCTURED POPULATION MODELS, A. Deines, E. Peterson, Derek Boeckner, J. Boyle, A. Keighley, J. Kogut, J. Lubben, Richard Rebarber, R. Ryan, Brigitte Tenhumberg, S. Townley, and Andrew J. Tyre
A Review of Leg Ornamentation in Male Wolf Spiders, with the Description of a New Species from Australia, Artoria schizocoides (Araneae, Lycosidae), Volker W. Framenau and Eileen Hebets
Does Species Diversity Limit Productivity in Natural Grassland Communities?, James B. Grace, T. Michael Anderson, Melinda D. Smith, Eric W. Seabloom, Sandy J. Andelman, Gayna Meche, Evan Weiher, Larry K. Allain, Heli Jutila, Mahesh Sankaran, Johannes Knops, Mark Ritchie, and Michael R. Willig
The cost of reproduction: the devil in the details, Lawrence G. Harshman and Anthony J. Zera
Subadult Female Experience Does Not Influence Species Recognition in the Wolf Spider Schizocosa uetzi Stratton 1997, Eileen Hebets
Experience leads to preference: experienced females prefer brush-legged males in a population of syntopic wolf spiders, Eileen Hebets and Cor J. Vink
The αD-Globin Gene Originated via Duplication of an Embryonic α-Like Globin Gene in the Ancestor of Tetrapod Vertebrates, Federico G. Hoffmann and Jay F. Storz
Genetic Microheterogeneity and Phenotypic Variation of Helicobacter pylori Arginase in Clinical Isolates, Justin Hovey, Emily Watson, Melanie Langford, Ellen Hildebrandt, Sangeetha Bathala, Jeffrey Bolland, Domenico Spadafora, George Mendz, and David McGee
Gregarina niphandrodes (Eugregarinorida: Septatorina): Oocyst Surface Architecture, John J. Janovy Jr., Matthew G. Bolek, Jillian Tikka Detwiler, Samana Schwank, Alaine Knipes, and Gabriel J. Langford
New and Emended Descriptions of Gregarines from Flour Beetles (Tribolium spp. and Palorus subdepressus: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), John J. Janovy Jr., Jillian Tikka Detwiler, Samana Schwank, Matthew G. Bolek, Alaine Knipes, and Gabriel J. Langford
The Birds of Nebraska, Revised edition 2007, Paul A. Johnsgard
Microarray Challenges in Ecology, Jan E. Kammenga, Michael A. Herman, N. Joop Ouborg, Loretta Johnson, and Rainer Bretling
Negative correlation does not imply a tradeoff between growth and reproduction in California oaks, Johannes M. H. Knops, Walter D. Koenig, and William J. Carmen
A Practical Approach to Phylogenomics: The Phylogeny of Ray-Finned Fish (Actinopterygii) as a Case Study, Chenhong Li, Guillermo Ortí, Gong Zhang, and Guoqing Lu
Genome-Enabled Hitchhiking Mapping Identifies QTLs for Stress Resistance in Natural Drosophila, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, Lawrence G. Harshman, M. Zhou, and K. Harmon
Habitat Area Affects Arthropd Communities Directly and Indirectly Through Top Predators, Örjan Östman, Nicholas W. Griffin, Jared L. Strasburg, Jennifer A. Brisson, Alan R. Templeton, Tiffany M. Knight, and Jonathan M. Chase
Evaluation of Metals in a Defined Medium for Pichia pastoris Expressing Recombinant β-Galactosidase, Bradley A. Plantz, Kenneth W. Nickerson, Stephen D. Kachman, and Vicki L. Schlegel
Alkaline iron(III) reduction by a novel alkaliphilic, halotolerant, Bacillus sp. isolated from salt flat sediments of Soap Lake, Jarrod Pollock, Karrie A. Weber, Joe Lack, Laurie A. Achenbach, Melanie R. Mormile, and John D. Coates
Molecular Phylogenetics of the Phyllostomid Bat Genus Micronycteris with Descriptions of Two New Subgenera, Calvin A. Porter, Steven R. Hoofer, Chrissy A. Cline, Federico G. Hoffmann, and Robert J. Baker
Germ-line chimerism and paternal care in marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii), C. N. Ross, J. A. French, and Guillermo Ortí
Variation in Herbivore-Mediated Indirect Effects of an Invasive Plant on a Native Plant, F. Leland Russell, Svata M. Louda, Tatyana A. Rand, and Stephen D. Kachman
Growth-Size Scaling Relationships of Woody Plant Species Differ from Predictions of the Metabolic Ecology Model, Sabrina E. Russo, Susan K. Wiser, and David A. Coomes
The Arabidopsis Homologs of Trithorax (ATX1) and Enhancer of Zeste (CLF) Establish ‘Bivalent Chromatin Marks’ at the Silent AGAMOUS Locus, Abdelaty Saleh, Ayed Al-Abdallat, Ivan Ndamukong, Raul Alvarez-Venegas, and Zoya Avramova
Parasites, proteomics and performance: Effects of gregarine gut parasites on dragonfly flight muscle composition and function, Rudolf J. Schilder and James H. Marden
Plant Mitochondrial Recombination Surveillance Requires Unusual RecA and MutS Homologs, Vikas Shedge, Maria P. Arrieta-Montiel, Alan C. Christensen, and Sally Ann MacKenzie
Systematics of Iochrominae (Solanaceae): Patterns in Floral Diversity and Interspecific Crossability, Stacey DeWitt Smith and David A. Baum
HEMOGLOBIN FUNCTION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION TO HYPOXIA IN HIGH-ALTITUDE MAMMALS, Jay F. Storz
Complex Signatures of Selection and Gene Conversion in the Duplicated Globin Genes of House Mice, Jay F. Storz, Monica Baze, Jessica L. Waite, Federico G. Hoffmann, Juan C. Opazo, and Jack P. Hayes
THE STUDY OF ADAPTATION AND SPECIATION IN THE GENOMIC ERA, Jay F. Storz and Hopi E. Hoekstra
Flagellar Motility and Structure in the Hyperthermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, Zalán Szabó, Musa Sani, Maarten Groeneveld, Benham Zolghadr, James Schelert, Sonja-Verena Albers, Paul H. Blum, Egbert J. Boekema, and Arnold J.M. Driessen
Electrochemical Stimulation of Microbial Perchlorate Reduction, J. Cameron Thrash, J. Ian Van Trump, Karrie A. Weber, Elisabeth Miller, Laurie A. Achenbach, and John D. Coates
Identifying mechanistic models of spatial behavior using pattern-based modeling: An example from lizard home ranges, Andrew J. Tyre, Gregory D. Kerr, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and C. Michael Bull
Cross-modal effects on learning: a seismic stimulus improves color discrimination learning in a jumping spider, Nicole D. VanderSal and Eileen Hebets
Codon usage in twelve species of Drosophila, Saverio Vicario, Etsuko N. Moriyama, and Jeffrey R. Powell
The Relative Importance of Different Direct Benefits in the Mate Choices of a Field Cricket, William E. Wagner Jr. and Alexandra L. Basolo
False promises: Females spurn cheating males in a field cricket, William E. Wagner, Andrew R. Smith, and Alexandra Basolo
Simpler mode of inheritance of transcriptional variation in male Drosophila melanogaster, Marta Wayne, Marina Telonis-Scott, Lisa Bono, Lawrence G. Harshman, Artyom Kopp, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, and Lauren McIntyre
Asymmetric Localizations of LIN-17/Fz and MIG-5/Dsh Are Involved in the Asymmetric B Cell Division in C. elegans, Mingfu Wu and Michael A. Herman
Conflict between Translation Initiation and Elongation in Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genomes, Xuhua Xia, Huang Huang, Malisa Carullo, Esther Betran, and Estuko N. Moriyama
Hormones in the Field: Evolutionary Endocrinology of Juvenile Hormone and Ecdysteroids in Field Populations of the Wing-Dimorphic Cricket Gryllus firmus, Anthony J. Zera, Zangwu Zhao, and Katherine Kaliseck
2006
Abundance of and Floral Herbivory on Exotic Bull Thistle versus Native Tall Thistle in Western Tallgrass Prairie, Chad P. Andersen and Svata M. Louda
Spatial associations of humus, nutrients and soils in mixed dipterocarp forest at Lambir, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, I. C. Baillie, P.S. Ashton, S.P. Chin, S.J. Davies, P.A. Palmiotto, Sabrina E. Russo, and S. Tan
Wing Dimorphism in Aphids, Christian Braendle, Gregory K. Davis, Jennifer A. Brisson, and David L. Stern
Can Environmental Variation Generate Positive Indirect Effects in a Model of Shared Predation?, Chad Brassil
The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: An emerging genomic model system for ecological, developmental, and evolutionary studies, Jennifer A. Brisson and David L. Stern
Phylogenetic Analysis of the cardini Group of Drosophila with Respect to Changes in Pigmentation, Jennifer A. Brisson, Jason Wilder, and Hope Hollocher
Feather Mites Are Positively Associated with Daily Survival in Cliff Swallows, Charles R. Brown, Kathleen R. Brazeal, Stephanie A. Strickler, and Mary Bomberger Brown
The Importance of Demographic Niches to Tree Diversity, Richard Condit, Peter Ashton, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, H. S. Dattaraja, Stuart J. Davies, Shameema Esufali, Corneille Ewango, Robin Foster, I. A.U.N. Gunatilleke, C. V.S. Gunatilleke, Pamela Hall, Kyle E. Harms, Terese Hart, Consuelo Hernandez, Stephen Hubbell, Akira Ito, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, James LaFrankie, Suzanne Loo de Lao, Jean-Remy Makana, Md. Nur Supardi Noor, Abdul Rahman Kassim, Sabrina E. Russo, Raman Sukumar, Cristián Samper, Hebbalulu S. Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Sean Thomas, Renato Valencia, Martha Vallejo, Gorky Villa, and Tommaso Zillio
Female preference for complex/novel signals in a spider, Damian O. Elias, Eileen Hebets, and Ronald R. Hoy
Regional Seismic Song Differences in Sky Island Populations of the Jumping Spider Harbonattus pugillis Griswold (Araneae, Salticidae), Damian O. Elias, Eileen Hebets, Ronald R. Hoy, Wayne P. Maddison, and Andrew C. Mason
Seismic signal production in a wolf spider: parallel versus serial multi-component signals, Damian O. Elias, Norman Lee, Eileen Hebets, and Andrew Mason
Premature Induction of an Immunosuppressive Regulatory T Cell Response during Acute Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection, Jacob D. Estes, Qingsheng Li, Matthew R. Reynolds, Stephen W. Wietgrefe, Lijie Duan, Timothy Schacker, Louis J. Picker, David I. Watkins, Jeffrey D. Lifson, Cavan Reilly, John V. Carlis, and Ashley T. Haase
An Examination of Agonistic Interactions in the Whip Spider Phrynus marginemaculatus (Arachnida, Amblypygi), Kasey D. Fowler-Finn and Eileen Hebets
Nonparametric Estimation of Natural Selection on a Quantitative Trait using Mark-Recapture Data, Olivier Gimenez, Rita Covas, Charles R. Brown, Mark D. Anderson, Mary Bomberger Brown, and Thomas Lenormand
The Role of Visual Ornamentation in Female Choice of a Multimodal Male Courtship Display, Eileen Hebets, K. Cuasay, and P. K. Rivlin
Farnesol restores wild-type colony morphology to 96% of Candida albicans colony morphology variants recovered following treatment with mutagens, Ellen C. Jensen, Jacob M. Hornby, Nicole E. Pagliaccetti, Chuleeon M. Wolter, Kenneth Nickerson, and Audrey L. Atkin
A New Species of Myxidium (Myxosporea: Myxidiidae), from the Western Chorus Frog, Pseudacris triseriata triseriata, and Blanchard's Cricket Frog, Acris crepitans blanchardi (Hylidae), from Eastern Nebraska: Morphology, Phylogeny, and Critical Comments on Amphibian Myxidium Taxonomy, Miloslav Jirků, Matthew G. Bolek, Christopher M. Whipps, John J. Janovy Jr., Mike L. Kent, and David Modrý
Superoxide Dismutase Activities in Long-Lived Drosophila melanogaster Females: chico1 Genotypes and Dietary Dilution, Hadise Kabil, Linda Partridge, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Determination of mRNA half-lives in Candida albicans using thiolutin as a transcription inhibitor, Bessie W. Kebaara, Lindsey E. Nielsen, Kenneth Nickerson, and Audrey L. Atkin
Fire does not alter vegetation in infertile prairie, Johannes M.H. Knops
Protein Binding Site Prediction Using an Empirical Scoring Function, Shide Liang, Chi Zhang, Song Liu, and Yaoqi Zhou
Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: New evidence from lizards and frogs, J. Robert Macy, James A. Schulte II, Jared L. Strasburg, Jennifer A. Brisson, Allan Larson, Natalia B. Ananjeva, Yuezhao Wang, James F. Parham, and Theodore J. Papenfuss
Sex-Specific Expression of Alternative Transcripts in Drosophila, Lauren McIntyre, Lisa Bono, Anne Genissel, Rick Westerman, Damion Junk, Marina Telonis-Scott, Lawrence G. Harshman, Marta Wayne, Artyom Kopp, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin
Plant Reproductive Allocation Predicts Herbivore Dynamics across Spatial and Temporal Scales, Tom E. X. Miller, Andrew J. Tyre, and Svata M. Louda
Mining the Arabidopsis thaliana genome for highly-divergent seven transmembrane receptors, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Pooja K. Strope, Stephen O. Opiyo, Zhongying Chen, and Alan M. Jones
Invasive Insect Abundance Varies across the Biogeographic Distribution of a Native Host Plant, Tatyana A. Rand and Svata M. Louda
INVASIVE INSECT ABUNDANCE VARIES ACROSS THE BIOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF A NATIVE HOST PLANT, Tatyana A. Rand and Svata M. Louda
Spillover of Agriculturally Subsidized Predators as a Potential Threat to Native Insect Herbivores in Fragmented Landscapes, Tatyana A. Rand and Svata M. Louda
Glucocorticoid Hormone Levels Increase with Group Size and Parasite Load in Cliff Swallows, Samrrah A. Raouf, Linda C. Smith, Mary Bomberger Brown, John C. Wingfield, and Charles R. Brown
Incorporating Animal Behavior Into Seed Dispersal Models: Implications For Seed Shadows, Sabrina E. Russo, Stephen Portnoy, and Carol K. Augspurger
Regulation of Mercury Resistance in the Crenarchaeote Sulfolobus solfataricus, James Schelert, Melissa Drozda, Vidula Dixit, Amanda Dillman, and Paul H. Blum
The Developmental and Molecular Basis of Allometry in Drosophila, Alexander W. Shingleton, Jennifer A. Brisson, and David L. Stern
Phylogenetics of the Florally Diverse Andean Clade Iochrominae (Solanaceae), Stacey DeWitt Smith and David A. Baum
Anatomy and Physiology of Giant Neurons in the Antenniform Leg of the Amblypygid Phrynus marginemaculatus, A. J. Spence and Eileen Hebets
Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Pteropodidae): Inferences from the Spatial Scale of Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation, Jay F. Storz, Hari R. Bhat, Johnson Balasingh, P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, and Thomas H. Kunz
Optimal Time Allocation in Parasitic Wasps Searching for Hosts and Food, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Gitta Siekmann, and Michael A. Keller
Identifying landscape scale patterns from individual scale processes, Andrew J. Tyre, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and C. Michael Bull
mig-5/Dsh Controls Cell Fate Determination and Cell Migration in C. elegans, Timothy Walston, Chaobo Guo, Rui Proenca, Mingfu Wu, Michael Herman, Jeff Hardin, and Edward Hedgecock
A Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis of Natural Genetic Variation for Drosophila melanogaster Oxidative Stress Survival, Yue Wang, David Pot, Stephen D. Kachman, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Environmental stress and reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster: starvation resistance, ovariole numbers and early age egg production, Marta L. Wayne, Usha Soundararajan, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Microorganisms Pumping Iron: Anaerobic Microbial Iron Oxidation and Reduction, Karrie A. Weber, Laurie A. Achenbach, and John D. Coates
Anaerobic Nitrate-Dependent Iron(II) Bio-Oxidation by a Novel Lithoautotrophic Betaproteobacterium, Strain 2002, Karrie A. Weber, Jarrod Pollock, Kimberly A. Cole, Susan M. O'Connor, Laurie A. Achenbach, and John D. Coates
Anaerobic redox cycling of iron by freshwater sediment microorganisms, Karrie A. Weber, Matilde M. Urrutia, Perry F. Churchill, Ravi K. Kukkadapu, and Eric E. Roden
HEN1 recognizes 21–24 nt small RNA duplexes and deposits a methyl group onto the 2' OH of the 3' terminal nucleotide, Zhiyong Yang, Yon W. Ebright, Bin Yu, and Xuemei Chen
Evolutionary genetics of juvenile hormone and ecdysteroid regulation in Gryllus: A case study in the microevolution of endocrine regulation, Anthony J. Zera
Intermediary Metabolism and Life-History Trade-Offs: Differential Metabolism of Amino Acids Underlies the Dispersal-Reproduction Trade-Off in a Wing-Polymorphic Cricket, Anthony J. Zera and Zhangwu Zhao
Biochemical basis of specialization for dispersal vs. reproduction in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Morph-specific metabolism of amino acids, Zhangwu Zhao and Anthony J. Zera
2005
Methylation patterns of histone H3 Lys 4, Lys 9 and Lys 27 in transcriptionally active and inactive Arabidopsis genes and in atx1 mutants, Raul Alvarez-Venegas and Zoya Avramova
Characterization of different crystal forms of the α-glucosidase MalA from Sulfolobus solfataricus, Heidi Asschenfeldt Ernst, Martin Willemoës, Leila Lo Leggio, Gordon Leonard, Paul H. Blum, and Sine Larsen
The Tree-Thinking Challenge, David A. Baum, Stacey DeWitt Smith, and Samuel S.S. Donovan
Abdominal Pigmentation Variation in Drosophila polymorpha: Geographic Variation in the Trait, and Underlying Phylogeography, Jennifer A. Brisson, Daniela Cristina De Toni, Ian Duncan, and Alan R. Templeton
Between-Group Transmission Dynamics of the Swallow Bug, Oeciacus vicarius, Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown
Effects of Endogenous Steroid Hormone Levels on Annual Survival in Cliff Swallows, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Samrrah A. Raouf, Linda C. Smith, and John C. Wingfield
Terrestrial Behavior of Ateles spp., Christina J. Campbell, Filippo Aureli, Colin A. Chapman, Gabriel Ramos-Fernández, Kim Matthews, Sabrina E. Russo, Scott Suarez, and Laura Vick
Biodemography of a long-lived tephritid: Reproduction and longevity in a large cohort of female Mexican fruit flies, Anastrepha ludens, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Hans-Georg Müller, Jane-Ling Wang, Damla Senturke, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Stochastic dietary restriction using a Markov-chain feeding protocol elicits complex, life history response in medflies, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Hans-Georg Müller, Jane-Ling Wang, Ying Zhang, and Lawrence G. Harshman
First record of Drosophila parthenogenetica and D. neomorpha, cardini group, Heed, 1962 (Drosophila, Drosophilidae), in Brazil, Daniela Cristina De Toni, Jennifer A. Brisson, Paulo R. P. Hofmann, Marlucia Martins, and Hope Hollocher
Seismic signals are crucial for male mating success in a visual specialist jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae), Damian O. Elias, Eileen Hebets, Ronald R. Hoy, and Andrew C. Mason